Call for Short Papers

The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval. 

The Short Paper Track calls for original contributions presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and addressing innovative application areas within the field of Information Retrieval, and specifically in the topics listed in the Call for Full Papers.

Short papers differ from full papers in that they present innovative new works, which are not mature enough yet for a full paper. Their contribution may thus be narrower in scope than would be expected from a full paper. Also, the empirical or theoretical analyses provided in a short paper might be weaker compared to a full paper. Papers that stimulate and promote discussion are particularly encouraged.

• Short papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references.  Appendices count toward the page limit. Please put appendices before the references for paper submission.
• Short papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. This means that all submitted papers must be fully anonymised.

Submission Guidelines

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid). 

All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2025) 

In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference by one of the authors in person – and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend.

Dual Submission Policy

Papers submitted to ECIR 2025 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are:

• Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings.
• Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv). However, we discourage this since it places anonymity at risk; in particular, please do not publish your paper at arXiv and submit it to ECIR at the same time, some days before, or during the reviewing period of ECIR. If your paper already is available as a technical report, you might not want to use the exact same title and abstract for your ECIR submission (in case of acceptance at ECIR, the title of your submission still might be changed back).
• Please do not cite your technical report and make some effort to avoid any issues that may harm the double-blindness of your submission. Reviewers will receive guidance that ask them to refrain from trying to break blindness if at all possible too, but be aware that the availability of an available technical report for an ECIR submission can cause issues.

Ethics and Professional Conduct

ECIR 2025 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organizing committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely:

• The ACM’s Policy on Authorship,
• The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct,
• The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy,
• The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification,
• The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment.

Short Paper Track Dates

• Short paper abstract submission: October 16, 2024, 11:59pm  October 23, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)
• Short paper submission: October 23, 2024, 11:59pm  October 30, 2024, November 3, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)
• Short paper notification: December 16, 2024
• Main conference: April 06-10, 2025

Short Paper Track Chairs

• Gabriella Kazai (Amazon, UK)
• Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
• Contact: ecir2025-short AT easychair.org